Tenley Bick, "Photography between Desire and Disillusionment: West African Studio Portraiture, Diaspora, and Italy in the Work of Silvia Rosi," Palinsesti, n. 11 (2025). Forthcoming article.

Tenley Bick, “Armatures of a Different Value, of Boundless Feeling: The Art of Buzz Spector.” In Buzz Spector (Zolla/Lieberman, forthcoming 2025). Exh. cat.

Tenley Bick, “A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Italy." In The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History, edited by Eddie Chambers (London and New York: Routledge, 2024), 174–189.

Tenley Bick, Film review, Oltre i bordi (Beyond the Frame), by Simone Brioni and Matteo Sandrini (5e6 Film, 2023, 41 min. digital, color), Italian American Review 14, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 202–06.

Tenley Bick, "'Un sentimento di libertà': Toward a Transnational Italian Art History," Forum Italicum, special issue, Transnational Italian Studies, eds. Serena Bassi, Loredana Polezzi, and Giulia Riccò (2023) (position essay, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858231176752

Tenley Bick, “Postcolonial Retro-Futurism: Alessandro Ceresoli’s Linea Tagliero Prototypes.” International Yearbook of Futurism Studies 13, Neo-Futurism, edited by Günter Berghaus, Dalila Colucci and Tim Florian Klähn (2023): 315–45.

Tenley Bick, "Porta di Lampedusa, porta d'Europa: Contemporary Monumentality, Entropy, and Migration at the Gateway to Europe," in Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multi-lingual Literatures, Arts and Cultures, edited by Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, 131–166 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).

Tenley Bick, "Where There’s Everything: Pistoletto, the Gruppo d’arte ‘l’Arlecchino,’ and Localist Internationalism in Presenze," Word & Image 38, n. 2 (June 2022): 132–164.

Tenley Bick, "Towards a Transnational Italian Art History: A User's Guide," Italian Art Society Newsletter 33, no. 2, The Global Future of Italian Art History, ed. Livia Lupi (Spring 2022): 11–13. Refereed invited essay.

Alvin Curran and Tenley Bick, "Spontaneous funghi: Musica Elettronica Viva and Lo Zoo in Turin, 1968. An interview with Alvin Curran." Portable Gray 5, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 118–139.

Tenley Bick, "Kounellis, Graffiti, and Migration: Notes on Arte Povera in Miami," New Art Examiner (Jan/Feb/Mar 2022): http://www.newartexaminer.org/arte-povera.html. Print forthcoming. Exhibition review, Arte Povera / Postwar Italian Art from the Margulies Collection (October 20, 2021 – April 30, 2022), cur. Katherine Hinds, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL.

Tenley Bick, “Make It Shine (Extraordinary Things Are Possible Between Beings): The Art of Marinella Senatore / Make It Shine (Cose straordinarie sono possibili tra persone): l'Arte di Marinella Senatore," in Marinella Senatore: Make It Shine, 7–19 (Turin: Mazzoleni, 2022). Italian translation by Howard Rodger MacLean. Exh. cat. [Link]

Tenley Bick, "Bochner's Italian Picture," in Bochner Boetti Fontana (Cold Spring, NY: Magazzino Italian Art, 2021), 40–47. Exh. cat.

Tenley Bick, “Other Hues of Blue: A Pandemic-Era Biennial in Atlanta.” New Art Examiner 35, no. 3 (January/February/March 2021): 33–37. Exhibition review of the 2021 Atlanta Biennial, Of Care and Destruction (cur. Jordan Amirkhani, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia)

Tenley Bick, "Ghosts for the Present: Countercultural Aesthetics and Postcoloniality for Contemporary Italy. The Work of Wu Ming 2 and Fare Ala," in Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris '68, edited by William Cloonan, Barry Faulk, Martin Munro, and Christian Weber, 45–77. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021.

Tenley Bick, "'My world now is black in color': Pandemic-Era Programming, Activism, and Contemporary Art in Italy," CAA International News (Aug. 11, 2020): http://www.collegeart.org/news/2020/08/11/international-news-my-world-now-is-black-in-color-tenley-bick/.

Tenley Bick, “What Goes Around Comes Around: Myth and Male Trauma in Somali Diasporic Cinema." Third Text 33, no. 2 (2019): 153–177.

Tenley Bick, "Suspensions of Self-Perception: On Vision and Subjectivity in Contemporary Art." In Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline, edited by James Elkins and Kristi McGuire, with Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, and Joel Kuennen, 242–45. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Tenley Bick, "Horror Histories: Apartheid and the Abject Body in the Work of Jane Alexander," African Arts 43, no. 4 (Winter 2010): 30–41.

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@costell.azione (Instagram)